Improvement in coffee-pots, pitchers



J. GIBSON, Jr.

Coffee Pot.

,Patentd Dec. 28, 1869;

N.PETERS, FHQTO-LITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. c.

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'JOHN GIBSON, JR., OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 98,244, dated December 28, 1869; a-ntedated December11, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN COFFEE-POTS, PITCHERS, &c.

b The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN GIBSON, J r., of thecity and county of Albany, State of New York, have invented certain newand useful I mprovements'in Coffee- Iots, Pitchers, and similar vessels,whereby the said vessels can be easily transported from one place toanother on a table or counter, and can also be tilted, to pour off theircontents, with ease; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact ole-- scription thereof, reference being had tothe accompa nying drawings, forming a part of this specification, inwhioh- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the improvements.Figure 2 is a vertical view, from above, ofthe base of the apparatus.

Figure 3 is a lateral cross-view of the supportingbase.

'Figure 4 is a vertical lateral view through vessel and supporting-base.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a section of a vessel, showing oneform of bearing for the standard-pivots used with this invention.

Figure 6 is a section of a vessel, showing a modification of the same.

Figure 7 is a cross-sectionthrough a section of the shell of the vessel,and through the pivot, and a section of the supporting-standards, andcorresponding with fig. 5.

Figure 8 is a cross-section of the same, showing a modification adaptedto that in fig. 6.

By my invention,a coffee-pot, pitcher, or other similar vessel, can besupported and tilted without being lifted up, which operation, by theold method, requires considerable strength, especially with vessels of alarge capacity.

In this invention, I'make two peculiar recessed bearings, opposite eachother, either on the outside shell of the vessel, or in the shell, insuch a way as will admit-the reception of shoulder-headed journals, orof pivots, which .are made with or attached to the upper ends of thesupporting-standards rising up from the base of the apparatus.

By a part of this invention, the vessel suspended is prevented frombeing tilted in more than one direction, which is effected by placing atthe front of the supporting-base, or at any other suitable place, astop, against which the pitcher will strike when it attains to aperpendicular position.

Another pait of this invention consists in the employment of wheels orcasters, suitably connected, either directly or indirectly, with thesupporting-base. The said wheels or casters carry the whole apparatus,together with the vessel suspended, which can thus be moved to one partof a table or counter to another without being lifted or carried.

By another part of this'invention, the liquid contained within thevessel may be-kept warm and ready for use, which warming is efi'ectcd bya spirit or other suitable lamp placed on the bottom of thesupportingbase, and under the bottom of the suspended vessel.

The whole apparatus, when thus constructed and arranged, furnishes aready, simple, and convenient article for hotel or private use,requiring but little strength or skill for its operation.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe it in reference to the accompanying drawings, andthe letters of reference marked thereon, the same letters indicatinglike parts.

In the drawings A represents the vessel.

B is the supporting-base.

O G are the supportingrstandards, attached to the base B.

The vessel A is provided with bearings, a, figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8,made on or in the opposite sides of the shell of the said vessel.

The said bearings a, when made on the outside of the vessel, as in figs.1, 4, 5, and 7, are furnished with enlarged openings, shown by reddotted lines o in fig. 5, which openings conin'iuuicate with an innerrecess, 2, fig. 7

The standards 0 C are attached to the supporting" base B, and rise up,as shown in figs.- 1 and 4, and arefurnished, at their upper ends, withpivots (Z zl, which are to work into the bearings a a. l

The said pivots maybe plainpins, or (as I would prefer) may be furnishedwith beads or shoulders, as shown in. figs. 7 and S.

The bearings a a, whether made projecting, as in figs. 5 and 7, orsunken, as in figs. 6 and 8, are furnished with what I termguiding-slots, s, which slots I prefer so inclined as to communicatewith the bearings'a at an angle of about forty-five degrees (incliningforward and downward) from the perpendicular line of the vessel; and,when the slots 8 are so lined, the top of the vessel A can be tiltedforward and downward without danger of displacing the vessel.

If't he bearings a are sunken, as in figs. 6 and 8, an

entrance, 1', is furnished, to communicate with the recess e, whichentrance '1' terminates in the guiding-slot 3, into which the pivot (1works.

These bearings may be made in or on vessels made of crockery, glass,china, or stone-ware, as well as metallic 'yessels, which vessels, sofurnished, can be suspended and operated from any suitable journals orpivots on the supporting-Standards O with perfect freedom and safety.

To prevent the vessel A from tilting in more than one direction, I place(preferably) on the front, inside or on the top edge of thesupporting-base B, a stop, I),

rest; or the said stop I) may be placed on the vessel,

or elsewhere, to produce the same result.

For convenience in moving the vessel A, with the whole tilting andsupporting-apparatus, from place to place on a table or counter, Iprovide the wheels D,

'two or more in number.

The said wheels D run on axles g, attached to and starting out from thebase B, and support the'whole apparatus,

When the wheels 1) are used as shown in figs. 2 and 4, they are placedon opposite sides of the base B, and two small rollers, on, may beplaced and attached to the base 13, as shown in fig. 2, tosupport andsteady the front and back of the said base B; and, as these rollers mbarely touch the surface over which the apparatus-mny be moved, simplerounded nibs or bearings may be used as substitutes for the said rollersm.

Should three or more wheels D be used in connection with the said baseB, they may be so placed as to insure equal support or hearing.

Caster-wheels could be used, yet not with the same advantage as thewheels D, running on fixed axles; and, in either case, whether supportedand 'rolled on two or more wheels D, or equivalent caster-wheels, thewhole apparatus may be moved from one place to another on a table orcounter without the necessity of lifting and carrying the same, which,with heavy vessels of large capacity, requires considerable strength andefibrt.

To warm and keep warm any liquid'in the vessel A, I place in the bottomof the, supporting-base B any suitable spirit or other lamp, E, figs.1,2,and 4, which lamp is so placed as to be beneath the vessel whenstanding at rest.' 'By this arrangement, tea or other warm liquids maybe kept in readiness for use.

I do not claim an arm on the lower part or base of the vessel, below thehandle, so arranged as to rest upon a stop on the rim beneath thevessel, to prevent the base of the vessel swinging forward, though, thestop on the front of thy supporting-base ofthe tiltingstand, in mydevice, accomplishes the same purpose.

Having described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters latent, is i 1. Therecessed bearings a a, with their guidingslots 8, inclined in the mannerdescribed, and in com bination with the vessel A, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

2, The stop b, or its equivalent, in combinationwith the supporting-baseB, or in combination with the vassel A, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

3. The wheels I), rollers m, or their equivalents, in combination withthe'supporting-base, B, of a tiltingstand, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

4. The lamp E, in combination with thesupportingbase, B, of atilting-stand, and a swung vessel, A, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

J OHN GIBSON, JR.

Vitnesses;

M; I. GIBSON, A. L. Gusson.

